Officers eavesdrop through door, nab suspect

4:34 PM,
Jan. 23, 2014

Dontay Brown.

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A Far-Eastside robbery investigation became easier, police said, when they overheard a conversation from outside the door of a home they visited to interview a possible suspect.

Following a robbery that happened about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, two officers with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department followed a victim's directions to an apartment in the 2100 block of Sussex Lane, near 21st Street and Post Road.

The officers paused outside the door when they heard voices - and soon realized two people were recounting the same incident the police were investigating. ...